Legislators comment on Government’s development reports

Thứ năm - 09/05/2019 20:45 203 0

The National Assembly(NA) Standing Committee on May 8 commented on the Government’s reports whichgave additional assessments on the socio-economic development and state budgetsituation in 2018 and the first months of this year.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on May 8 comments on the Government’s
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This was part of activities for the NA Standing Committee’s34^thsession that opened the same day.

On behalf of the Government, Minister of Planning and InvestmentNguyen Chi Dung reported that Vietnam recorded a GDP growth rate of 6.79percent in the first quarter of 2019, higher than the pace in the same periodof 2011-2017. However, there have been signs of growth slowdown.

African swine fever has been a significant challenge tolivestock farming over the past few months, greatly affecting theagro-forestry-fishery sector as well as farmers’ incomes.

He said the Government, ministries, sectors, and localitieswill persist with the set targets and take drastic actions to effectively carryout the planned socio-economic development solution.

Commenting on the Government’s reports, Chairman of the NA’sCommittee for Economic Affairs Vu Hong Thanh said the relatively comprehensiveresults were seen in the implementation of the development plan for 2018.

He asked the Cabinet to further analyse both objective andsubjective reasons for these outcomes so as to serve socio-economic governancein 2019 and the years to follow.

Some lawmakers asked for a thorough assessment ofcontributions by the tourism sector, which attracted near 15.5 million foreignvisitors to Vietnam last year, to the country’s economic growth in order todevelop it into a spearhead industry.

The Government should also continue reviewing the 11 groupsof major shortcomings that it pointed out in its reports, including thoserelated to the growth model reform, restructuring of some sectors, publicinvestment, and the equitisation of state-owned enterprises, participants said.

At the meeting, NA Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien said the NAStanding Committee highly valued the achievements of 2018 and efforts by theGovernment, ministries, sectors, localities, as well as businesses and peopleof all strata. It supports the solutions devised by the Government and sharesits view on current shortcomings.

The committee requested that in its reports, the Governmentshould focus more on solutions to improve the quality of economic restructuringand growth model reform, facilitate the key economic regions and the privatesector, speed up public investment capital disbursement and state-ownedenterprise equitisation, and enhance budgetary discipline.

Relevant agencies were asked to revise the reports so as tosubmit them to the NA for discussion at its upcoming seventh session scheduledto begin later this month.

Source: VNA

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